Message-ID: <328BC217.5266@ananke.amu.edu.pl> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 02:06:31 +0100 From: Mark Habersack Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl Organization: Home, sweet home MIME-Version: 1.0 To: malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Smaller distribution archives References: <199611140446 DOT RAA03058 AT papaioea DOT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Malcolm Taylor wrote: > Thought of this a while ago, a script with at least query boxes (so > you can ask for directories) a few variables to set up directories > etc. This could be stuck somewhere in the archive near the beginning > (in fact at the beginning) and accessed by the SFX code. Why not to use the RAR approach? Just put the script in the comment. And a good looking UI can be written in ASM using just a few lines of code. > As for the usefulness, several versions of these are already used for > instalation archives (eg WinZip's self installer I have seen used, as > well as WinRAR's). These would be great for packages distributed on > the Internet and would get rid of the temp dir headaches. I begun thinking about it when I was looking for some SFX-creator for ZIP archives that'd enable me to call a program at the end of the extraction process. I found none (for DOS)... -- =========================================================== October. And the trees are stripped bare of all they wear. What do I care? October. And Kingdoms rise, And Kingdoms fall, But you go on, and on. ===========================================================